Governor Dixy Lee Ray papers, 1977-1981.

Ray, Dixy Lee, 1914-1994

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Dixy Lee Ray (September 3, 1914 – January 2, 1994) was an American scientist and politician who served as the 17th Governor of the U.S. state of Washington. Variously described as idiosyncratic, and "ridiculously smart," she was the state's first female governor and was in office during the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens. She was a supporter of atomic energy and a critic of the environmentalist movement. A graduate of Mills College and Stanford University, where she earned a doctorate in b...

Washington (State). Governor (1977-1981 : Ray)

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Dixy Lee Ray was born in Tacoma, Wash., on 3 Sept. 1914, the second of five daughters of Francis Adams Ray and Alvis M. Ray, a printer. Ray won a scholarship to Mills College and graduated in 1937. The following year she earned a Master's Degree at Mills, and then taught high school biology for four years. She earned her doctorate in marine biology at Stanford University in 1945, after which Dr. Ray taught zoology at the University of Washington for more than twenty years, while als...

National Governors' Association

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